PIL calls for CBI probe into singer KK’s demise

Via PTI

KOLKATA: A PIL was once filed sooner than the Calcutta Top Courtroom on Monday looking for a CBI probe into singer KK’s demise on Might 31, in a while after his efficiency at Nazrul Manch, with the petitioner claiming that negligence at the a part of the organisers and the police led to hectic prerequisites for the performer.

Noting that the union that organised the programme at Gurudas School is managed by way of Trinamool Congress Chhatra Parishad (TMCP), the scholars’ wing of the ruling celebration, the petitioner mentioned that independent investigation will not be imaginable by way of a state company.

He additionally stated that the police didn’t vital motion to forestall overcrowding on the venue As such investigation into the demise of Krishnakumar Kunnath (KK) be passed over to the CBI, the petitioner prayed. His attorney Rabi Shankar Chatterjee stated that the topic would possibly arise for listening to sooner than the department bench, headed by way of Leader Justice Prakash Shrivastava, on Friday.

KK had collapsed on achieving resort, following his efficiency at Nazrul Manch. He was once taken to a sanatorium, the place medical doctors declared him ‘introduced useless’. The put up mortem file mentioned that KK’s died because of myocardial infarction.

Opposition events within the state have alleged mismanagement right through the soiree at Nazrul Manch on Might 31 amid claims by way of positive sections that the selection of attendees a long way exceeded the capability of the venue.

Kolkata Police commissioner Vineet Goyal mentioned that there was once no scarcity of area at Nazrul Manch right through KK’s efficiency.